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Myles Taylor recites their piece in front of an attentive audience at the 2025 Team Selection Preliminary Slam. The Cantab Lounge hosts the event every Wednesday from 8 to 11 p.m. Photo courtesy Jarvis Subia.  Just a foot from the audience stands a mic and Myles Taylor, the host and president of the Boston Poetry Slam, welcoming new and old artists to the dimly lit Cantab Lounge basement. Wasting not a second more, Taylor booms, “Welcome to the Boston Poetry Slam! We are here

Live music will always feel different from the radio or headphones. Every pore in your body fills with the movement of the bass, the beat of the drums, and the passion of the singer. Regardless of what is playing, you feel it. At a bar, these sensations are deepened by the enhancement of alcohol and the feeling of strangers united through friendship. For most people, going out to a bar isn’t for the music. But during many live performances, the sonic ambiance of bars is just

Lennox’s third studio album, Vacancy  is perfect for your late night hang out with your not-so-sneaky link. About temporary lovers, all Lennox wants is someone “to fill this Vacancy,” as she sings in the title track. Backed by her mesmerizing R&B sound, Lennox unpacks the highs and lows of a situationship. Using soulful vocals that melt into the intimate beats, she captures her listeners and lover in a warm embrace. Ruminating on this need, its fulfillment, and the aftermath,

The things we read have a way of creeping into our subconscious and blooming into our realities without us even knowing. For artists, books and stories can bleed into their music in more ways than not. Catching literary references in music is like watching a movie with 3D glasses: your understanding of the story exponentially increases. By drawing on existing characters and stories, musicians create a listening experience filled with easter eggs for the well-read listener. Wh

After a seven year hiatus from making music, Lily Allen recorded what can only be regarded as a musical Burn Book. Its cover, a painted portrait of herself gazing resolutely at the viewer, frames the juicy tracklist about her husband’s not-so-secret sexual escapades. After discovering actor David Harbour’s affairs in December of last year, Allen began recording West End Girl  quickly thereafter, exposing not only her own secrets, but also her husband’s in a ruthless show of h

In mid November, Erykah Badu made her much awaited return to Boston’s stage for the 25th Anniversary Tour for Mama’s Gun , an album that has only grown in popularity since its release during Thanksgiving week back in the year 2000. The album is one of Badu’s favorites that she's ever worked on and it makes sense when you see that every song is a story Badu cares to tell and make her listeners feel. For fans seated in MGM, these stories were expanded upon in acoustic sets and

2017, hair tutorials, and butter yellow have one thing in common – dodie. Back when covers posted on the internet made people famous, she was on the rise for her melancholy lyrics and flirty instrumentals. From hits like “In the Middle” to “Party Tattoos,” dodie captured the cautious but playful energy of an anxiety-ridden generation determined to try new things. Her first few releases were published as demos on her YouTube channel, doddleoddle , where she often posted origin